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"She runs a one-woman food pop-up called Nourish Ramen, launched from her Eastside apartment just before COVID, that fulfills up to 40 pickup orders a week (typically on Wednesdays) and has moved from social posts to accepting online orders; the take-out model allowed rapid pandemic growth. Care and hospitality are central—she used to host full tables of strangers in her home kitchen, light candles for date-night diners, and has become more careful about dietary restrictions since becoming a mother—and she infuses her ramen with third-generation Jamaican heritage, offering dishes like curry ramen, homemade sorrel, and a Ginger Brew by Paradise Farms using her friend Oronde Bandele’s recipe, with an island plate possibly coming next summer." - Imani Mixon